Robert Smith

Business

• Robert MacKay Smith, Scottish businessman, meteorologist and philanthropist who founded Glasgow University's Mackay Smith Prizes
• Robert Barr Smith, Australian businessman and philanthropist
• Robert Hall Smith, American railroad executive, president of the Norfolk and Western Railway, 1946–1958
• Robert H. Smith , American builder and developer who developed much of the Crystal City, Virginia neighborhood just south of Washington, D.C.
• Robert P. Smith , American financial pioneer, philanthropist and author
• Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin, British businessman, governor of the BBC
• Robert F. Smith , American businessman and investor; founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners
• he was black

  Entertainment

Acting

• Robert Wilton Smith, known as Robb Wilton, English comedian and comic actor
• Robert Smith , American actor
• Robert Grant Smith, American aeronautical engineer and actor after whom the R.G. Smith Award is named
• Robert O. Smith, American voice actor
• Robert Smith , Canadian actor and voice actor

  Music

• Robert Archibald Smith, Scottish composer, known for his collection Scotish Minstrel, a selection from the vocal melodies of Scotland ancient and modern
• Robert Bache Smith, American librettist and lyricist
• Robert Curtis Smith, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
• Bobby Smith , American musician, lead singer of the Spinners
• Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey famous for his gravelly voice
• Bob Smith, founder, singer, keyboardist and drummer for Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys
• Robert Dean Smith, American operatic tenor
• Robert W. Smith , American composer, arranger and teacher
• Robert Smith , English musician, lead singer and guitarist of The Cure
• Robert L. Smith , American recording engineer and record producer in New York City
• Rob Smith , Irish singer-songwriter and DJ
• Rob Smith , English contemporary DJ, musician, and remixer
• Rob Sonic, American rapper and record producer

  Writing

• Robert Paul Smith, American author
• Robert W. Smith , American martial artist and historian
• Robert Kimmel Smith, American novelist and children's author
• Bob Smith, American author who wrote the memoir Hamlet's Dresser
• Rob Magnuson Smith, British-American novelist, short story writer, and university lecturer

  Stage name

• Robert Emil Schmidt, nicknamed Buffalo Bob Smith, American host of TV show Howdy Doody
• Bob and Roberta Smith, pseudonym for British artist Patrick Brill

  Other entertainment

• Robert Emmet Smith, American film art director and production designer
• Bob Smith , American comic book inker
• Bob Smith , American comedian and author
• Normal Bob Smith, American graphic artist, writer, and atheist activist
• Robert Farrell Smith, American humorist who writes children's books under the name Obert Skye
• Bob Smith , American video game developer and producer
• Bob Kupa'a Smith, American host of the television show Wordsmith

  History

• Robert Smith , expert on the history of the Yoruba people of Nigeria
• Robert Bruce Smith IV, American music and history expert
• Robert J. A. Smith, chairman of the Richmond Local History Society in Richmond, London
• Robert W. Smith , scholar of history and the classics at the University of Alberta
• Robert Chester Smith, American art historian

  Journalism

• Robert Smith , journalist for The New York Times
• Robert Smith , correspondent for National Public Radio
• Rob Smith , BBC South East TV presenter

  Law

• Robert Percy Smith, British lawyer, MP and judge advocate-general of Bengal, India
• Robert L. Smith , Nebraska Supreme Court judge
• Robert Ellis Smith, American attorney and author
• Robert S. Smith, New York State Court of Appeals associate judge

  Military

• Robert A. Smith, birth name of British soldier and churchwarden Robert Smith-Dorrien
• Robert Smith , American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Robert Smith , Australian wool merchant and army officer
• Robert H. Smith , United States Navy submariner for whom the destroyer/minelayer USS Robert H. Smith was named
• Robert T. Smith, American World War II flying ace
• Robert G. Smith , American colonel of the Spanish–American War

  Politics and government

Australia

• Robert Murray Smith, politician in colonial Victoria and agent-general for Victoria
• Robert Burdett Smith, solicitor and politician in colonial New South Wales
• Robert Harrison Smith, member of both the Queensland Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Assembly
• Bob Rowland Smith, National Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
• Bob Smith , Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council

  Canada

• Robert Smith , Canadian member of parliament for Peel, Ontario
• Robert Smith , Canadian member of parliament for Stormont, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Robert Smith , Newfoundland politician and merchant
• Robert Smith , Irish-born member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
• Robert Black Smith, member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick 1917–1925
• Robert Knowlton Smith, Canadian member of parliament for Cumberland 1925–1935
• Robert Melville Smith, deputy minister of the Department of Highways of Ontario 1934–1943

  New Zealand

• Robert William Smith , member of parliament

  United Kingdom

• Robert Smith , member of parliament for Wycombe from 1318 to 1322
• Robert Smith , MP for Derby in 1420 and 1421
• Robert Smith , MP for Devizes
• Robert Smith , MP for Carlisle
• Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, MP for Nottingham
• Robert Percy Smith, British lawyer, MP and judge advocate-general of Bengal, India
• Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden, known as Robert Vernon Smith until 1859, British Liberal Party politician and MP
• Robert Smith , general secretary of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers and British Labour Party politician
• Sir Robert Smith, 1st Baronet, Scottish Unionist politician and MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine Central
• Robert Smith , British governor of North Borneo
• Sir Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet, Liberal Democrat politician and MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• Bobby Smith , British political and fathers' rights activist

  United States

• Robert Smith , secretary of state and of the Navy
• Robert Barnwell Smith, known as Robert Barnwell Rhett, U.S. senator and representative from South Carolina
• Robert Smith , U.S. representative from Illinois
• Robert Hardy Smith, Alabama politician and officer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
• Robert Burns Smith, governor of Montana
• Robert Lloyd Smith, educator, businessman, and politician in the Texas Legislature
• Robert B. Smith , mayor of Newport News, Virginia 1956–1958
• Robert Solwin Smith, American ambassador to the Côte d'Ivoire
• Robert P. Smith , American diplomat
• Bob Smith , U.S. representative from Oregon
• Robert L. Smith , Republican politician from Idaho
• Bob Smith , U.S. senator from New Hampshire
• Bob Smith , New Jersey state senator
• Robert C. Smith , political science professor at San Francisco State University
• Robert J. Smith II, American attorney and New Jersey state legislator

  Religion

• Robert Smith , English-born American clergyman, planter and prelate of the Episcopal Church who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina
• Robert Payne Smith, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Dean of Canterbury
• Robert Pearsall Smith, lay leader in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom
• Robert H. Smith , American Lutheran clergyman, theologian, author and lecturer
• Robert Smith , American Catholic priest, author, and educator
• Robert P. Smith , American educator, pastor, and writer

  Science, engineering and medicine

• Robert William Smith , Irish surgeon and pathologist
• Robert Angus Smith, Scottish chemist, discoverer of acid rain
• Robert Murdoch Smith, Scottish engineer, archaeologist and diplomat
• Robert Smith , Sierra Leonean medical doctor and the first African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Bob Smith , American physician and surgeon who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous
• Robert Allan Smith, Scottish physicist
• Robert J. Smith , Cornell University anthropologist
• Robert H. T. Smith, Australian-Canadian professor of geography
• Robert L. Smith , American engineer, academic and author
• Robert Smith , American business executive and aerospace engineer

  Sports

Association football

• Robert Smith , Scottish international footballer born in Aberdeen
• Robert Smith , English footballer for Darwen in the 1890s
• Bobby Smith , English footballer born in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire
• Bobby Smith , Scottish footballer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife
• Robert Smith , English football player and manager born in Atherton, Lancashire
• Bob Smith , English professional footballer born in Walkden, Lancashire
• Bobby Smith , English footballer born in Lingdale, North Yorkshire
• Bobby Smith , Irish football player
• Bobby Smith , Canadian soccer player
• Bobby Smith , English footballer born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire
• Bobby Smith , English footballer and manager born in Prestbury, Cheshire
• Rob Smith , English footballer born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Bobby Smith , American soccer player born in Trenton, New Jersey
• Bobby Smith , Scottish footballer born in Dalkeith, Midlothian
• Rob Smith , American soccer player born in Wilmington, Delaware

  Australian rules football

• Bob Smith , Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy
• Bob Smith , Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne
• Rob Smith , Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne

  Gridiron football

• Bob Smith , American football defensive back
• Bob Smith , American football fullback
• Bob Smith , American football halfback
• Bobby Smith , American football defensive back
• Bob Smith , college football coach
• Bobby Smith , American football running back
• Bob Smith , American football defensive back
• Rob Smith , college football coach
• Rob Smith , Canadian football offensive lineman
• Robert Smith , American football defensive end
• Robert Smith , American football running back and sprinter
• Rob Smith , American football player
• Robert Smith , American football safety
• Robbie Smith , Canadian football defensive lineman

  Baseball

• Bob Smith , Negro league baseball player
• Bob Smith , infielder for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
• Bob Smith , Major League Baseball pitcher for the White Sox, 1913–1915
• Bob Smith , MLB pitcher for the Braves, Cubs, and Reds, 1923–1937
• Bob Smith , MLB pitcher for the Red Sox, Cubs, and Indians, 1958–1959
• Bob Smith , MLB pitcher for the Red Sox, Cardinals, Pirates, and Tigers, 1955–1959
• Bobby Smith , MLB outfielder, 1957–1965
• Robert Smith , International Baseball Federation president; instrumental in baseball becoming an Olympic sport
• Rob Smith , American college baseball coach

  Basketball

• Bobby Smith , American basketball player
• Bingo Smith, American basketball player
• Robert Smith , American basketball player, NBA

  Cricket

• Robert Smith , Australian cricketer; played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1890
• Robert Smith , English cricketer; played first class cricket for Derbyshire 1871–84, captain 1876–83
• Robert Smith , South African cricketer
• Robert Smith , New Zealand cricketer
• Robert Smith , Australian cricketer who played in New Zealand
• Robert Smith , English cricketer; played for Cumberland in 2001

  Equestrian sports

• Robert Augustus Smith, American racehorse trainer
• Robert Smith , British Olympic equestrian

  Hockey

• Bob Smith , Canadian minor pro hockey player
• Bobby Smith , all-star NHL hockey player
• Rob Smith , Canadian field hockey Olympian
• Robbie Smith , British field hockey player

  Martial arts

• Robert Smith , South African Olympic boxer
• Robby Smith, American Greco-Roman wrestler

  Water sports

• Bob Smith , New Zealand rower
• Robert Smith , Canadian sprint canoer
• Robert J. Smith , in the 1973 Star World Championships

  Other sports

• Bob Smith , American football, basketball, and baseball coach
• Robert Smith , American professional ten-pin bowler
• Bobby Smith , American javelin thrower
• Rob Smith , British racing driver
• Robbie Smith , Scottish rugby union player
• Robert Smith , Irish rugby union player
• Robert Smith , Scottish rugby union player
• Robert Smith , English sport shooter
• Bobby Smith , winner of the 1949 and 1950 NCAA Division I [Outdoor Track and Field Championships – Men's pole vault|NCAA DI outdoor pole vault] championship
• Robert Smith , American NCAA champion sprinter and football player
• Bob Smith , American sprinter, 1948 200 m All-American for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish track and field team
• Bob Smith , American sprinter, 1942 and 1943 All-American for the Washington Huskies track and field team

  Other

• Robert Smith , English mathematician and music theorist
• Robert Smith , American architect
• Robert Cross Smith, English astrologer
• Robert Benjamin Smith, American mass murderer
• Robert J. Smith, an Australian-Canadian mathematician who later changed their name to Stacey Smith?
• Robert W. Smith , New Zealand chess FIDE Master
• Robert Rowland Smith, British lecturer, writer on various subjects such as philosophy, politics, psychology and art
• Robert Smith , the last person to be publicly executed in Scotland